How to Allow Authors to Chat in WordPress

When you run a multi-author blog, communication among team members become very important. There are several WordPress plugins that allow site-admins and authors to exchange notes and feedback within the WordPress admin area. However these notes and feedback may go unnoticed. In this article, we will show you how to allow authors to chat in WordPress.

Before getting started, please note that this is a live chat for authors on your site. Only users with access to the admin area can use the chat feature. If you want to add a live chat feature to the front-end of your WordPress site, then please take a look at our article on how to add free live chat in WordPress
.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Author Chat
plugin. The plugin works out of the box. You can simply go to Dashboard or Dashboard » Author Chat screen to see it action.

This lite-weight chat system stores all chat messages in a separate table on your WordPress database. Make sure you visit the plugin’s settings page ‘Author Chat Options’ to set up an expiration period for chat logs.

The default expiration period is 30 days. If you are worried about the chat logs increasing your WordPress backup
size, then you can remove the author chat table from your backups altogether.

Instead of using a live chat within WordPress, we use Slack
for our team members. It’s far more efficient, and we highly recommend that you give it a try.